They will face a total of 19 charges in all. All, with the exception of Glenn Mulcaire, will be charged with conspiring to intercept communications without lawful authority, from 3 October 2000 to 9August 2006. The communications in question are the voicemail messages of well-known people and / or those associated with them. There is a schedule containing the names of over 600 people whom the prosecution will say are the victims of this offence.

In addition, each will face a number of further charges of conspiracy unlawfully to intercept communications, as follows:

Rebekah Brooks will face two additional charges:

The first relates to the voicemails of the late Milly Dowler

The second to the voicemails of Andrew Gilchrist

Andrew Coulson will face four additional charges, relating to the following victims:

Milly Dowler

The Rt Hon David Blunkett MP

The Rt Hon Charles Clarke, and

Calum Best

Stuart Kuttner will face two additional charges, relating to:

Milly Dowler and

The Rt Hon David Blunkett MP

Greg Miskiw will face nine further charges, relating to the following victims or groups of victims:

Milly Dowler

Sven-Goran Eriksson

Abigail Titmuss and John Leslie

Andrew Gilchrist

The Rt Hon David Blunkett MP

Delia Smith

The Rt Hon Charles Clarke

Jude Law, Sadie Frost and Sienna Miller, and

Wayne Rooney

Ian Edmondson will face a further 11 charges, relating to the following victims or groups of victims:

The Rt Hon David Blunkett MP

The Rt Hon Charles Clarke

Jude Law, Sadie Frost and Sienna Miller

Mark Oaten

Wayne Rooney

Calum Best

the Rt Hon Dame Tessa Jowell MP and David Mills

the Rt Hon Lord Prescott

Professor John Tulloch

Lord Frederick Windsor

Sir Paul McCartney and Heather Mills

Neville Thurlbeck will face a further seven charges in relation to the following victims or groups of victims:

Milly Dowler

Sven-Goran Eriksson

The Rt Hon David Blunkett MP

The Rt Hon Charles Clarke

Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt

Mark Oaten

The Rt Hon Dame Tessa Jowell MP and David Mills

James Weatherup will face a further seven charges in relation to the following victims or groups of victims:

The Rt Hon David Blunkett MP

The Rt Hon Charles Clarke

Jude Law, Sadie Frost and Sienna Miller

Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt

Wayne Rooney

The Rt Hon Lord Prescott

Sir Paul McCartney and Heather Mills

For legal reasons, Glenn Mulcaire does not face the first of these charges. However, he will face four charges, relating to:

Milly Dowler

Andrew Gilchrist

Delia Smith

The Rt Hon Charles Clarke

The following statement was issued today on behalf of Rebekah Brooks:

"I am not guilty of these charges. I did not authorise, nor was I aware of, phone hacking under my editorship. I am distressed and angry that the CPS have reached this decision when they knew all the facts and were in a position to stop the case at this stage.

"The charge concerning Milly Dowler is particularly upsetting not only as it is untrue but also because I have spent my journalistic career campaigning for victims of crime. I will vigorously defend these allegations."

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